Friday, 14 April 2017

VIDEO: Kuwait opens school for Mosul IDPs in Erbil

Kuwait opens school for Mosul IDPs in Erbil

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Five hundred boys and girls displaced from
Mosul can now study at a school opened in Erbil by the Kuwait Consulate
on Thursday.

Iraq’s Education Minister Muhammed Iqbal thanked Kuwait for the valuable
initiative of the school, which consists of 14 classrooms housed in
portables.

The school is one of five established by Kuwait for internally displaced
persons (IDPs) in Hassarok, Kasnazan, Hassan Sham camp, and in Duhok
governorate, detailed project supervisor Nassrin Suqi.

Kuwait has also constructed three health centres for IDPs, Suqi added.

“The Kuwait government started a launch for humanitarian aid in
cooperation with the Iraqi government,” the Kuwait Consul in Erbil, Omar
Ahmed al-Kandari, told Rudaw. “The aid consists of a food basket for
each IDP family, in addition to providing stationary and backpacks for
600 students who study in the school constructed by Kuwait.”

More than 3 million Iraqis are currently displaced throughout the country.